Mary Bystricky News Today

Moving quickly to cover the full slate of DUI, traffic, domestic violence and other criminal misdemeanors on the town prosecution calendar, the Payson Town Council approved a contract with the Law Office of Mark Iacovino with six votes to one abstention on Jan. 14. When Mary Bystricky gave her notice to move to the Gila County Attorney’s Office effective Jan. 19, town contract attorney Justin Pierce knew he had to make sure prosecutorial services continued. “This was an amazing opport...

Mary Bystricky, the Town of Payson’s prosecutor and co-founder of Gila County’s Restorative Court program along with Judge Dorothy Little, will leave the town to join the Gila County Attorney’s Office on Jan. 19. Bystricky joined the town’s prosecutorial office in July 2015, shortly after former Town Attorney Hector Figueroa started. “The Town of Payson was very fortunate to hire Mary at a time when the legal department had fallen behind when Tim Wright had been elected...